We departed the campground just alittle after 8:00 a.m. We traveled on route 64 through the CherokeeNational forest en route to Chattanooga, TN. On our way we sawseveral groups of people that were white water rafting down the riverthat paralleled route 64 in southwestern North Carolina. There weregroups of people loaded onto school busses with rafts on top headedto and from a rafting trip

. We are going to have to come back oneday and try the white water rafting.

Once we arrived in Chattanooga at 2:00p.m., we located the Tennessee Aquarium and spent the afternoontouring the two 3 story buildings that make up the aquarium. This isby far the largest aquarium that we have had the chance to tour. Ourtour lasted for 4 hours. Upon our departure we treated ourselves tosome Moon Pies from a downtown Moon Pie shop.

We decided to camp at a state park justacross the border in Georgia for the night. We didn't have anyproblem getting a campsite at Cloudland Canyon State Park. Now wecan get some much needed rest for the next leg of this adventure.